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National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 1996 (ICPSR 2365)

Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics

Summary:

The National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
(NHAMCS) was inaugurated in 1992 to fill a gap in data about
ambulatory medical care in the United States. Although the National
Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) collects annual data on patient
visits to physician offices, it excludes the hospital emergency room
and outpatient department visits that make up a large part of the
total ambulatory care received each year. The NHAMCS provides
data from samples of patient records select... (more info)

The National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
(NHAMCS) was inaugurated in 1992 to fill a gap in data about
ambulatory medical care in the United States. Although the National
Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) collects annual data on patient
visits to physician offices, it excludes the hospital emergency room
and outpatient department visits that make up a large part of the
total ambulatory care received each year. The NHAMCS provides
data from samples of patient records selected from emergency
departments (EDs) and outpatient departments (OPDs) of a national
sample of hospitals. The resulting national estimates describe the use
of hospital ambulatory medical care services in the United States.
For the 1996 survey, data were collected from 235 OPDs and 392 EDs.
Among the variables included are age, race, and sex of the patient,
reason for the visit, physician's diagnoses, cause of injury (ED
only), surgical procedures (OPD only), medication therapy, and
expected source of payment.

Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics. NATIONAL HOSPITAL AMBULATORY MEDICAL CARE SURVEY, 1996. Hyattsville, MD: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics [producer], 1996. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1998. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02365.v1

(1) This collection has not been processed by ICPSR
staff. ICPSR is distributing the data and documentation for this
collection in essentially the same form in which they were
received. When appropriate, hardcopy documentation has been converted
to machine-readable form and variables have been recoded to ensure
respondents' anonymity. (2) Per agreement with NCHS, ICPSR distributes
the data file(s) and technical documentation in this collection in
their original form as prepared by NCHS.

Methodology

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1998-11-16

Version History:

2006-01-18 File CB2365.ALL was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.